Production Planning Manager

Peet's Coffee•Alameda, CA

11d•$128,000 - $166,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Production Planning Manager leads production planning and scheduling to balance customer demand, inventory goals, and plant capacity. The role develops and manages daily, weekly, monthly, and long-range production plans, monitors execution, and proactively resolves planning challenges. It partners with Supply Chain, Operations, Demand Planning, and co-manufacturing partners to align coffee supply and production requirements. The manager also supports engineering changes, maintains performance reporting, and identifies opportunities to optimize capacity, improve efficiency, and provide cost-effective customer service. The role leads and develops production schedulers and coordinators, fosters a strong safety and quality mindset, and builds collaboration across planning, operations, buying, and multi-site partners. It applies the Company Production System and Lean Manufacturing principles to improve productivity, cost, KPIs, and on-time delivery. The manager oversees production and material schedules, inventory parameters, master scheduling, capacity planning, cross-functional execution, ERP/MRP processes, new-product introduction support, and production-attainment reporting.

Requirements

At least 2 years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment.
Experience with multi-site production scheduling and planning in both discrete and process manufacturing environments.
Experience configuring and using MRP/MPS systems, including capacity planning and trend forecasting.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
Innovative and critical-thinking skills, strong analytical capability, and the ability to recommend practical solutions.
Strong organizational, customer service, and project management skills.
Comfort developing and delivering group presentations to cross-functional audiences.
Excellent Microsoft Office skills, including creating reports, presentations, and planning materials.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent work experience.
Experience with Microsoft D365.
Prior implementation of MRP systems for production.

Responsibilities

Lead, manage, and coach production schedulers and coordinators; develop talent and foster safety and quality.
Build collaboration across planning, operations, buying, and multi-site partners, and drive continuous improvement using the Company Production System, Lean Manufacturing, and structured problem-solving tools.
Develop daily, weekly, and monthly production and material schedules for make-to-stock and make-to-order perishable products while balancing demand, freshness, quality, inventory, service, capacity, labor, equipment, and materials.
Maintain finished-goods inventory at target levels; measure fill rate and service levels; and refine MRP planning parameters based on business criticality, forecast accuracy, service requirements, lead times, Min/Max levels, and EOQs.
Develop the Monthly Master Production Schedule, assess manufacturing lead times and risks, evaluate schedule impacts from variances or change orders, and improve planning and capacity management.
Coordinate daily with Operations, Maintenance, Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, Customer Service, Accounting, and supply chain teams to execute production plans, resolve shop-floor issues, and communicate schedule changes, special runs, and maintenance requirements.
Use ERP/MRP systems to streamline scheduling; represent Manufacturing in NPI and S&OE processes; support item setup; own production-attainment reporting; and identify actions to ensure smooth operations.
Maintain and improve KPIs, dashboards, scorecards, productivity, cost, and on-time delivery through structured problem solving.
Proactively identify risks, solve problems, communicate clearly, build productive cross-functional relationships, and support hands-on execution.